Fisher is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital
Territory, Australia located in the district of Weston
Creek. Fisher was named after Andrew Fisher
(1862–1928), coal miner, founding member of the
federal parliamentary Labor Party and Prime
Minister of Australia for three terms between 1908
and 1915 (ACTLIC, 2004). The theme for the street
names in Fisher is Australian mines and mining
towns (ACTPLA,
2003).